Episodes

  • E329: Dear Diary (part III)

    E329: Dear Diary (part III)
    May 15 2026
    Stern is now spending millions, historians are cautiously warning them, and Konrad Kujau is sitting at home frantically producing more and more volumes while simultaneously convincing everyone that this all makes perfect sense. What could possibly go wrong? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • E328: Dear Diary (part II)

    E328: Dear Diary (part II)
    May 8 2026
    Gerd Heidemann follows up on the supposed Hitler diaries and finally meets the man behind them. Money starts changing hands in ways that should probably raise a few questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • E327: Dear Diary (part I)

    E327: Dear Diary (part I)
    May 1 2026
    This week, we start a story that begins with a boat, takes a detour through a small village in East Germany, and ends up with one of the biggest media scandals in German history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • E326: A Butcher, a Tailor & an Emperor walk into a Bar

    E326: A Butcher, a Tailor & an Emperor walk into a Bar
    Apr 24 2026
    In 1853, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria goes for one of his regular walks in Vienna. It’s something he does often enough that people know where to find him, and on that day, someone does. A young Hungarian tailor named János Libényi steps forward and tries to stab the emperor in the neck. The attack doesn’t go as planned, the emperor survives, and within seconds, two men step in and stop it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    56 mins
  • E325: The Great Molasses Flood (part III)

    E325: The Great Molasses Flood (part III)
    Apr 17 2026
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • E324: The Great Molasses Flood (part II)

    E324: The Great Molasses Flood (part II)
    Apr 10 2026
    This week we’re in January of 1919, in Boston’s North End. People are still recovering from the First World War and the 1918 flu, the area is packed with people, noise, and a molasses tank that never should have been there in the first place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • E323: MACABRE - The Great Molasses Flood (part I)

    E323: MACABRE - The Great Molasses Flood (part I)
    Apr 3 2026
    When we first started Fresh Hell, people kept asking us to cover the Boston Molasses Flood. So…here we are. And because Annie researched this one, we’re not taking the direct route. Part 1 is less about the disaster itself and more about everything that led up to it, because as always...none of this happened in a vacuum. We’re in Boston’s North End, one of the oldest and most crowded neighborhoods in the city, and we’re going way back. Fires, smallpox, the Salem witch trials, rum, slavery, baseball...it’s all in here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • E322: Friedrich Zawrel (part IV)

    E322: Friedrich Zawrel (part IV)
    Mar 27 2026
    After everything he survived as a child at Spiegelgrund, Friedrich ends up back in prison in the 1970s, where he is sent for a psychiatric evaluation. It's hard to believe what would happen next! This is the part of the story where things don’t resolve neatly, and where the idea of justice becomes complicated, delayed, and in many ways incomplete. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 5 mins